Short Bio of Matei Ferseta

• Born in 2008, in Romania;
• Hardware focused since 1 year old;
• At 10 years old he started to learn C++ with Anca Knopf, top Romanian C++ teacher;
• In 2020 he started to build 30+ computers from Second Hand computers, donated by companies for poor Romanian students during Covid 19 Pandemic;
  
• First cybersecurity contact – in 2019, at 11 years old, at CERT.RO, Romanian Cybersecurity Authority, with the Romanian Minister of Communications and Technology;
  
• In the last year (november 2024 – november 2025) (November 15, 2025), Matei Ferseta participated at over 70 cybersecurity competitions, improving continuously;
• At present, Matei Ferseta is attending Colegiul National de Informatica “Tudor Vianu”. #1 Romanian Informatics High school;
• He is also the President of the Vianu Cybersecurity Club (200 members);
• Trainer at many events, IT and cybersecurity related;
  
• Volunteer at Asociatia StartEvo, Stiinta&Technica, Atlantykron since… ever 🙂

We started as a Discord server to post some simple… but useful C++ code!

Co-developer of THE LAB (https://lab.vianuhack.club – the entry level community for Romanian high-schoolers to learn cybersecurity).